Carol Burns PhD

School

University of California, Berkeley

Area of Study

Chemistry

Fellowship Years

1983 - 1988

Carol Burns is a deputy principal
associate director for Science, Technology & Engineering at Los Alamos
National Laboratory (LANL). She has held various roles at LANL, including division
leader for Chemistry, group leader for Nuclear and Radiochemistry, chemistry
division deputy division leader and program manager for Advanced Concepts in
Energy Technology. Carol also served as senior policy advisor in the Office of
Science and Technology Policy. She was awarded the LANL Fellows Publication
Prize in 2002, named a Laboratory Fellow in 2003 and named a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008. Carol holds a BS
in chemistry from Rice University and a PhD in chemistry from the University of
California, Berkeley.